ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Norway’s DNO oil firm on Thursday announced that oil production in the Kurdistan Region grew by 35,000 barrels per day during the third quarter of 2025, with output expected to reach an average of around 60,000 barrels daily in the last quarter of the year. 

In a report published on Thursday, the firm stated that its net production grew to “34,900 boepd [barrels of oil per day] from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” during the third quarter of 2025, contributing to a record quarterly revenue of $547 million.

The company stated that it expects to further increase its net production during the fourth quarter of the year, with the Kurdistan Region “approaching 60,000 boepd on gross operated Tawke license production of 80,000 boepd.”

DNO owns 75 percent of the Kurdistan Region’s Tawke oil field. Following drone attacks in July on the firm’s sites in Duhok, the field’s gross production was reduced to 46,600 barrels per day, a 38 percent drop.

However, following “rapid repairs,” the total production was restored to approximately 75 thousand barrels per day currently, the report added.

The Kurdistan Region has been exporting around 185,000 barrels of oil per day through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline following its resumption after a breakthrough was reached between Erbil, Baghdad, and international oil companies.

Oil exports from the Kurdistan Region resumed in September via Turkey’s Cehyan port, ending a 30-month halt which cost Iraq and the Region an estimated $30 billion in lost revenue.

Oil sales account for more than 90 percent of Iraq’s revenue, and the state’s economy and spendings are highly dependent on its oil sector.